Lionel Barrymore
Department: Acting
Biography
Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931), and remains best known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr. Potter in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life. He is also particularly remembered as Ebenezer Scrooge in annual broadcasts of A Christmas Carol during his last two decades. He is also known for playing Dr. Leonard Gillespie in MGM's nine Dr. Kildare films, a role he reprised in a further six films focusing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series entitled The Story of Dr. Kildare. He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.
Known For
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
Estrellados
1930
Calling Dr. Gillespie
1942
Key Largo
1948
The Romance of Elaine
1915
The End of the Tour
1917
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929
Duel in the Sun
1946
Public Hero Number 1
1935
Grand Hotel
1932
West of Zanzibar
1928
You Can't Take It with You
1938
Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It with You
2008
Mata Hari
1931
On Borrowed Time
1939
Mark of the Vampire
1935
The Devil-Doll
1936
Since You Went Away
1944
The Little Colonel
1935
Sadie Thompson
1928
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912
Free and Easy
1930
A Guy Named Joe
1944
Rasputin and the Empress
1932
Test Pilot
1938
Lady Be Good
1941
Treasure Island
1934
The Valley of Decision
1945
Camille
1936
Lone Star
1952
David Copperfield
1935
Malaya
1949
Yesterday and Today
1953
Saratoga
1937
Captains Courageous
1937
Dinner at Eight
1933
Tennessee Johnson
1942
A Free Soul
1931
The Sheriff's Baby
1913
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
1941
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
1940
Gold and Glitter
1912
The Informer
1912
A Cry for Help
1912
The Unwelcome Guest
1913
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
1913
A Chance Deception
1913
Love in an Apartment Hotel
1913
Just Gold
1913
The Wrong Bottle
1913
So Runs the Way
1913
Night Flight
1933
Heredity
1912
Brutality
1912
My Hero
1912
Near To Earth
1913
Broken Lullaby
1932
The Ranchero's Revenge
1913
Red Hicks Defies the World
1913
The Well
1913
In Diplomatic Circles
1913
A Gamble with Death
1913
The Enemy's Baby
1913
The Mirror
1913
Under the Shadow of the Law
1913
I Was Meant for You
1913
The Work Habit
1913
The Crook and the Girl
1913
Fighting Blood
1911
The Stolen Treaty
1913
The Temptress
1926
All for Science
1913
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943
The Mysterious Island
1929
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
1940
The Yellow Ticket
1931
Ah, Wilderness!
1935
The Girl from Missouri
1934
Her Father's Silent Partner
1914
Judith of Bethulia
1914
The Road to Glory
1936
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
The Stranger's Return
1933
The Show
1927
Should Ladies Behave
1933
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
The New York Hat
1912
A Yank at Oxford
1938
Young Dr. Kildare
1938
Calling Dr. Kildare
1939
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
1940
The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
1941
Dr. Kildare's Victory
1942
A Family Affair
1937
A Misunderstood Boy
1913
Death's Marathon
1913
The Tender Hearted Boy
1913
The Perfidy of Mary
1913
Pa Says
1913
The Vengeance of Galora
1913
The Suffragette Minstrels
1913
Navy Blue and Gold
1937
Guilty Hands
1931
The Splendid Road
1925
The Woman Who Did
1925
The Barrier
1926
Road House
1928
The House of Discord
1913
The Return Of Peter Grimm
1935
The Bartered Crown
1914
Woman Against Woman
1914
The Cracksman's Gratitude
1914
Men and Women
1914
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
1938
The Power of the Press
1914
The Span of Life
1914
The Seats of the Mighty
1914
Arsène Lupin
1932
Down to the Sea in Ships
1949
The Exploits of Elaine
1914
Under the Gaslight
1914
A Modern Magdalen
1915
The Curious Conduct of Judge Legarde
1915
The Flaming Sword
1915
Dora Thorne
1915
A Yellow Streak
1915
The Brand of Cowardice
1916
The Painted Lady
1912
His Father's Son
1917
The Millionaire's Double
1917
National Red Cross Pageant
1917
The White Caps
1905
The Battle
1911
The Miser's Heart
1911
The Chief's Blanket
1912
Boomerang Bill
1922
I Am the Man
1924
A Man of Iron
1925
The Wrongdoers
1925
3 Men in White
1944
The Voice of Bugle Ann
1936
The Yaqui Cur
1913
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
1942
The Wanderer
1913
The Switchtower
1913
So Near, Yet So Far
1912
Sweepings
1933
The Bells
1926
Friends
1912
The Burglar’s Dilemma
1912
Strongheart
1914
Wife Tamers
1926
Let Freedom Ring
1939
Right Cross
1950
One Man's Journey
1933
Bannerline
1951
Three Wise Fools
1946
Between Two Women
1945
The Washington Masquerade
1932
Our Mr. Sun
1956
This Side of Heaven
1934
Carolina
1934
The Secret Heart
1946
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004
Super Duper Bloopers
1986
Almost a Wild Man
1913
Looking Forward
1933
The Christmas Party
1931
Land of Liberty
1939
Unseeing Eyes
1923
The Eternal City
1923
Classmates
1914
A Fireside Chat with Lionel Barrymore
1938
Paris at Midnight
1926
Dark Delusion
1947
Drums of Love
1928
That's Entertainment!
1974
Alias Jimmy Valentine
1928
The Penalty
1941
The Devil's Garden
1920
Three Friends
1913
Body and Soul
1927
The Lucky Lady
1926
The Stars Look Down
1940
The Bad Man
1941
An Indian's Loyalty
1913
Main Street to Broadway
1953
The Strong Man's Burden
1913
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940
Christopher Bean
1933
The Face in the Fog
1922
Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership
1949
The Lion and the Mouse
1928
From the Ends of the Earth
1939
Fate
1913
My Baby
1912
The One She Loved
1912
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
1913
Breakdowns of 1949
1949
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940
The Mesmerist
2003
Wildfire
1915
America
1924
Dragon Seed
1944
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
2002
Complicated Women
2003
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
Twenty Years After
1944
Brooding Eyes
1926
The Girl Who Wouldn't Work
1925
Women Love Diamonds
1927
The Little Tease
1913
Fifty-Fifty
1925
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story
1951
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith
1943
Oil and Water
1913
The Quitter
1916
A Timely Interception
1913
The God Within
1912
Enemies of Women
1923
The Great Adventure
1921
The River Woman
1928
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
The Copperhead
1920
Jim the Penman
1921
Children of the Whirlwind
1925
The Woman in Black
1914
The Thirteenth Hour
1927
The Lady and the Mouse
1913
Film Fun
1955
The Movies March On
1939
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925
The Upheaval
1916
Dorian's Divorce
1916
Screen Actors
1950
The House of Darkness
1913
Decameron Nights
1924
Meddling Women
1924
The Master Mind
1920
Hooray for Hollywood
1976
The Way of the World
1947
Brasileiros em Hollywood
1970
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
MGM Parade
1955
MGM Parade
1955
MGM Parade
1955